Ron Hornaday scored a milestone 50th Camping World Truck Series victory Saturday in the Kentucky 225 on a cold night of racing at Kentucky Speedway.
Hornaday held off the late-race charges of runner-up and pole-sitter Austin Dillon during the final 10 laps. Dillon, who protected his lead in the series points standings, pulled to within two-tenths of a second of Hornaday but could get no closer.
Hornaday talked more about his 50 wins than his late-race duel with Dillon, a 21-year-old in his second full season in the series.
“They ask, ‘what’s your favorite track?’ I tell them the ones where I win. I’ve won three at Kentucky, so this is my most favorite right now. To see the fans come out, as cold as it is, to see what we accomplished tonight, that’s pretty awesome.
“Bruce made an awesome call. We came in, everyone else stayed out and we put four (tires) on and ran the leaders down. We were running second and he (Austin Dillon) had to pit to come in and get fuel. We got an extra 20 laps on him. That’s the call that won the race,” Hornaday, Jr., said.
Dillon extended his lead in the standings to three points over third-place finisher James Buescher with five races remaining.
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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series: Kentucky 225 at Kentucky - Race Results
Ron Hornaday Edges Austin Dillon to Win Kentucky 225 NASCAR Truck Race
RANK DRIVER POINTS BEHIND 1 Austin Dillon 704 Leader 2 James Buescher 701 -3 3 Johnny Sauter 685 -19 4 Timothy Peters 664 -40 5 Ron Hornaday 662 -42 6 Joey Coulter* 634 -70 7 Cole Whitt* 632 -72 8 Matt Crafton 631 -73 9 Todd Bodine 631 -73 10 Parker Kligerman* 608 -96 11 Nelson Piquet Jr.* 585 -119 12 David Starr 582 -122 13 Brendan Gaughan 569 -135 14 Justin Lofton 541 -163 15 Miguel Paludo* 533 -171 16 Ricky Carmichael 530 -174 17 Jason White 517 -187 18 Max Papis 515 -189 19 Ryan Sieg 437 -267 20 Clay Rogers 371 -333 21 Justin Marks 292 -412 22 Johanna Long* 282 -422 23 Norm Benning 264 -440 24 Travis Kvapil 252 -452 25 Shane Sieg 233 -471 26 Craig Goess* 218 -486 27 Brad Sweet 193 -511 28 Blake Feese 147 -557 29 Steve Arpin 144 -560 30 Mike Garvey 138 -566 31 Dakoda Armstrong 125 -579 32 Josh Richards 119 -585 33 Chris Fontaine 105 -599 34 David Mayhew 98 -606 35 Jeffrey Earnhardt* 96 -608 36 Jack Smith 96 -608 37 Justin Johnson* 88 -616 38 Ross Chastain 81 -623 39 Jamie Dick 71 -633 40 Brian Ickler 70 -634
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